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Aerial Photograph of Auschwitz, Apr. 4, 1944.

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 This is one of a series of aerial reconnaissance photographs of the Auschwitz concentration camp taken between April 4, 1944 and January 14, 1945 by a de Havilland Mosquito photo-reconnaissance aircraft operated by the South African Air Force. The Allies had the range and capability to bomb Auschwitz from May 1944, but chose not to.

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